Christiane F. (1981)
AKA: Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo; We Children from Bahnhof Zoo
Directed by: Uli Edel
Starring: Natja Brunckhorst (Christiane), Thomas Haustein (Detlev), Christiane Reichelt (Babsi), Jens Kupha (Axel)
Country: Germany, European Cinema
Language: German (English Subtitles)
Runtime: 02:10:59
Genres: Based on a True Story, BDSM, Drugs, Gay, Prostitution, Old-Young, Teensploitation
Plot – Spoilers:
Based on a true story, 13 year-old Christiane lives with her mother and younger sister in a Berlin apartment that depresses her. Though her parents are separated, she shares a fairly decent relationship with her mother and opts to stay with her rather than with Dad, even when her sister moves in with him.
A friend takes Christiane one night to a newly opened happening club. Here she meets Detlev who is kind to her when she’s handling a trip like an embarrassing noob. The two then begin hanging out together and briefly break up when Detlev starts doing heroin. But by now, Christiane is in love with him and in an attempt to connect with him on the same plane, she tries heroin. From here, her spiral takes her to Zoo Station, a railway station where junkies and teen boys and girls hang out to prostitute themselves to anyone who’ll have them.
Favorite Scenes:
Christiane, Detlev and friends whiling the night away to Bowie’s Heroes. As dawn breaks, Christiane looks on innocently at the adult world as it prepares for a new day of work and routines that seem so cut off from the happy place she’s in right now.
i want to be her so bad
This movie was boring af
It’s not supposed to be an entertaining movie, moron…
My favorite movie of all time! A beautiful story and must watch imo.
wow this was kinda fucked, not the worst ive seen but still
I love this movie. I know you don’t take requests, but “Der Fan” from 1982 needs to be on here. Don’t worry, this is the only time I’ll break the rule. It’s just that sometimes the gratuitous fuckedupness can get so boring after a while that sometimes I crave the masterfully crafted fuckedupness.
we can be zeroes just for a day
Really good movie, i really liked it.
It shows how important are the people you surround yourself with, in shaping your views and character. If you hang out with a bunch of fucking junkies, you are gonna end like them too at some point, just to “fit” in. And how people are easily influenceable by their “friends” (especially women)
The moment a person start taking and getting addicted to drugs, they lose their humanity and should be treated as human garbage. Why the fuck should i treat them with “respect”, when they don’t even respect themselfs?
Losing their morality, start being a danger to society, their families and to themselfs. And a lot of them acts, like because they do drugs, they are “mature” or know shit about life lmao there’s nothing mature about taking drugs. Is pathetic and low life.
Anyway, great movie. To the next one.
Tough movie to watch, but agree with Yeux, nobody forces people to take drugs, its up to each individual to choose the right or wrong path. I used to be a dope smoker and had lots of offers of hard drugs but after seeing the end result of some friends, I was virtually scared shitless to touch any of that shit. Now in my later years I am glad I didnt go that way, probably would have been dead by now. Another highlight of this film, is David Bowies ”Heroes”, one of the best songs of all time. Every future addict should watch this, it may just be a turning point for someone.
Hey moron; they just came up with a brand new word – about 1400 fucking years ago; it is “themselves” you friggin retard from hell. Otherwise your comments were quite good – only in the first paragraph! But you went off the rails in displaying your asshole attitude towards human beings who made horrible decisions. Anyone can get to a breaking point and do just that. Most people have a place in their soul where they may be able to be influenced; (or helped to recuperate and repair themselves), but you would gladly just shit on them. Doesn’t speak well of your own character. Btw, I was like Zed Man below; in my youth I smoked pot, tried snorting a little coke, did speed for a short while, but was petrified of anything harder. At 67 now, I’m glad I chose not to damage my ability to think. Anyway, I’d surmise that drugs would have done you no more harm than your despicable attitude (which is also a choice, you imbecilic fuck-stick pos). I would try to help ANYONE who displayed a good character, but were simply struggling with demons. There are MILLIONS of people who hate themselves to some degree.. and drink alcohol like a fucking shit-bag, and you’d probably excuse that behavior as MILLIONS of folks also do. Empathy for your fellow man would improve your existence ten-fold – and then you might not come on an obscure movie comment section and out of your own MISERY.. trash… Read more »
Well said geezer thanks.
You made a strong point in beginning but then went off the mark afterwards. People take drugs for a lot of reasons and more often than not those reasons are because they see how miserably deteriorated their lives have gotten and are looking for ways to cope and numb the pain. I’ve had friends from childhood whose lives were destroyed through drug addiction for this very reason. There are other reasons too. Some people were simply coerced into taking drugs and went down the spiral ever since. Some people grew up with junkies and their environment was hardwired into them during upbringing against their choices and better judgement. Celebrities have took them because of the sheer pressure placed on their lives and felt they had no one else to turn to. Drug addiction is a serious condition that requires a lot of help, understanding and willpower to overcome, and there are a lot of people out there who are actively trying to beat it because they want something better for themselves. Wether its by themselves or with the public. However, in many cases, people need help defeating their own addiction and it takes assisted rehabilitation, not absolute contempt like you suggested. It takes a lot of stones to even take the first step into the road of recovery. Not everyone has the same amount of mettle even before taking drugs, and you trashing on people with this condition says alot about yourself. I used to think that people taking drugs… Read more »
Great movie 8.1/10
There is another one about heroin addiction that may actually be a 10/10 called ‘Requiem for a dream’
Is heroin that good? Dam I’ll stick to the kush tho
Jeez. this seems like a meeting place for current or former drug addicts.
Good movie.
Tragic, realistic film. As a recovering addict with over 22 years clean, where there is breath there is always hope for recovery,
You rule but dude above you thinks you should die and are a waste of tax payers money.
Long and boring. Who cares if junkies or alcoholics die. It’s too many people around and there is no room for garbage. Beside all they do is being a burden to society and pitty crime. Wasting of taxpayers money.
jeez you’re fucking heartless. movie aside, how can you even say that about human beings?
the selfish and privileged often fail to see the bigger picture of humanity. Most of them are right wing based.
The selfish and privileged make the tastiest bitter HomoWurst, as in Sapien, but darn. that’s just my serial killer alter ego talking smack!
Americans are dumber than a sack of diapers lol
Staying away from drugs cause they’re obviously bad for you IS NOT A PRIVILEGE it’s called knowing what’s best for you and it’s something both poor people and the rich are capable of. Whatever supports your entitled petty agenda tho
Hey look! Another fucking IMBECILIC CLOWN with a brain the size of a pea – labeling ALL of a certain kind into the same stereotype! Let me correct your stupid assumption; I’d say that about 65% of ALL people – no matter from where they reside… have a proclivity toward being dumber than a bag of hammers – in various understandings and opinions. The major contributor to this is the human condition which most people don’t possess a genius IQ, and then usually assume and speculate on things which they cannot grasp, and most people are followers instead of thinkers ‘on their own two feet’, so they follow the herd/ want to be like others/ to be accepted. It doesn’t matter where you go; you’ll find idiots and assholes the world over, in all social classes and all races, skippy. And you’ll also find the most wonderful and brilliant amongst them as well, buckwheat.
And the left are often self-righteous, entitled, hypocritical scabs.
They certainly are! And their constant virtual signaling is manufactured and tedious. Not a one of these fake-ass whiners contributes anything even remotely positive to society but they all have the audacity to point fingers and place blame for their own obvious short-comings. Is it any wonder these people are rapidly becoming one of the most despises groups in all of history? The entire world is starting to see through their mock outrage and perpetual victimhood… and frankly, we’re getting pretty goddam sick of it.
Wow. You are a complete fucking retard – just as are the majority of liberals. They are 80% bleeding heart followers (brainless puppets/ sheeple/ kool-aid drunk lemmings/ TOOLS) of propaganda expertly crafted by evil masters of control – for centuries now! If you were capable of the ability to utilize REASON, you’d have noticed that they keep us warring against one another by labeling us with contemptable descriptions/ character assassination!! I am a hardcore limited-government, constitutional conservative – because my IQ is 145 and my level of common sense is off the freakin charts.. [And my education afforded me the knowledge absolutely that our founders were the most supreme gaggle of intellectuals – who also cared THE MOST.. EVER about the new citizenry whom they were CHAMPIONING in the formation of a new type of society guaranteeing the most… wait for it… LIBERTY!! That is PROVEN by their inclusion of written documents of multitudes of WARNINGS that ALL governments in the history of the freakin PLANET(‘s) propensity to eventually turn against its’ citizens – for their own benefit!!] I possess a much higher amount of empathy for my fellow man than 75% of humankind. Attitudes toward others has ZERO to do with political ideology, you braindead douchebag pos. And btw, being privileged ALSO has NOTHING to do with an empathy for others. Being selfish DOES go hand-in-hand with lacking care for others = DUH. You obviously lack desperately in intellect, so I’d suggest that you stop making idiotic proclamations about… Read more »
Jesus fuckin christ, aren’t your the loser constantly complaining about SJWs?
God you are the biggest fucking loser on this whole website
I mean you’re not wrong.
All these triggered people prove your point further more. Addiction is not a disease it’s the consequence of a choice. And no matter how much social conditioning these pathetic losers try to make it seem like junkies and garbage humans are a victim and are entitled to sympathy facts are facts
You’re a fucking idiot. They’re people and addiction is an illness. It stops being a choice.
But it WAS a choice, knowing full well what it can lead to…. Sure, it becomes a sickness. Just like I’m sure you’re going to opt for the Carcinoma, right?
What?! You don’t want Cancer?! Then why in the Hell would you stick a needle in you arm? I
Look, ‘m an EMT in … a major American city. And the ones that get me the most are the ones that OD on Tuesday, but thanks to guys like me and a couple of Narcan injections, they’ve got a needle in their arm Wednesday morning. Yes, these people are sick. Very sick. But they made the choice to get the disease in the first place. So, when I lose a junkie – it’s no big whoop. And sadly, that’s nearly a daily occurrence anymore.
it’s not that simple those people you call junkies were once children with dreams and aspirations but have fell into the wrong crowd due to trauma. Let’s look at Detlev and Christiane for example both come from broken homes. Detlev is literally homeless and a prostitute I mean you have to wonder how did he end up homeless he probably has family issues right? Do you think being homeless at 14 doesn’t have any effect on someone’s brain and development especially at his young age? christiane obviously has daddy issues and her sister left her. She also seemed to have some issues with her moms boyfriend like how she got annoyed when her mom told her he’s coming over while they were making food. I believe the reason Christiane started heroin is when she got disconnected from detlev she probably felt abandoned and that triggered her because she’s been abandoned many times before like by her sister and her father So in order to get closer to detlev she decided to do heroin I don’t think she was thinking too much about how heroin can damage her in the long run.
You do know that heroin and others like it have a complicted relationship with dose. Many overdose not on there first round of addiction but after they have had treatement to stop. The body fails in its ability to build up tolerance in the same way the second/third time round.
Prisoners in the UK are taken off the stuff whlst in prison but are actually re-introduced before leaving prison to help prevent such things. I expect similar happens in the US.
The other thing you should know is that even doctors struggle to get morphine calculations right. They did a study at a UK hospital and found 25% of prescriptions were mis-calculated. Complicated by other drugs as well. Many other pain killer metabilise into morphine and that actually has to be taken into account when moving from one pain regime to another.
If you take mixing into consideration then quite a lot of users will use alcohol and cocaine to control and prolong the buzz. All in all its quite complicated to get things right daily and with street purchasing all in all its quite complicated to get a good clean quaity source.
You want to stop OD`s then first step allow the addicts to get good quality stuff and allow them a safe place to inject/take. Basically start treating them as a person with an illness.
You PIECE OF SHIT SCUMBAG. “When you lose a junkie – it’s no big whoop”??? Yeah; you prettied that DISGUSTING statement up with some reasoned points as well. But JUST THAT ONE sentence, you fucking ASSHOLE. I hope you’ve been fired by now, as NO ONE working in the health field should EVER harbor such indifference for a human life!! I am a hard-ass when it comes to actual scum: I wish they’d get fucking wasted – IF there is no redeeming qualities and they’ve seriously hurt anyone in a life-altering fashion. I’ve said many times that if a small handful of good people were removed first, I would rejoice in bliss and scream in celebration and cry tears of joy if the house and senate doors in Washington DC became locked and everyone died in a horrible fire. BUT.. 90+% of these people are EVIL SCUM. haha Many addicts are simply losers due to choices that THEY felt were due to hopelessness. Where the FUCK is your empathy for your fellow man??? First do no harm?? YOU are in the wrong profession. I built near perfect single family homes, and I NEVER said, “meh, it’s close enough”. And I had everyone in the industry saying mine were the very best. And so; I had a wait list to build homes. You’re like; “Meh, ya win some ya lose some, no biggie.” Your heart should hurt for EVERY lost life, you asshole scum-fuck-stick. Good thing I don’t live anywhere near… Read more »
Don’t lf excuses dude, free will is real in every human being. We all make mistakes and can repair it, but world is full of scum that never changes too. Cope with it
It was suppose to me be playing on TMC AND 3:15 in the morning. I saw siskel and every rave about what a powerful film it was . I’m surprised after 44 years of life I’ve never heard of this movie. It lived up to the hype
This was totally my childhood.. with fewer drugs.
I love this movie, btw— thanks for uploading it, admins 🙂
READ THE BOOK … it is MORE POWERFULL than this stupid movie . I just did it and it NOT COMPARE to this !!! TRUST ME !!! READ THE BOOK !!!
Watch the movie AND read the book. Both are absolutely great.
the book is great and so is this movie you pretentious asshole
this movie is heartbreaking omg
LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!
Powerful film, intense realistic performances. If this story is not enough to deter you away from heroin, nothing will.
This movie reminds me of the song by Smashing Pumpkins – Try, Try, Try….
God i love this site. Also this is such a realistic movie. I never touched heroin because i knew it would do this. I struggled with other addictions but still. Don’t let this site go down!
Very nice movie
good movie could use better translations though.
Wow, an adult at 14?!
Good movie!
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I have seen this film so many times, it is an excellent movie, very realistic – I should know, I have been a heroin addict myself. Great performance from the actor who plays Christiane. Thanks for posting and such an awesome site I just discovered tonight.
I love this movie
I’m just about to see the full movie. I saw the video allready, but not yet the full version of the movie. I also read the book. And I must agree. I saw in her some kind of an alter-ego, allthough I mostly did amphetamine and cocaine, just rarely, a couple of times exactly, I tried out heroine. But I surely know a lot about the drug-scene.